Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-01-22
GLADSTONE,S OPTIMISM.
What the Statesman Says Of the Lau.
reate's Sequel To 90 L0cksley HAIL.

GLADSTONE'S OPTIMISM.
What the Statesman says Of the Lau-
reate's Sequel To g Locksley Hail.
| From the St. James Budget.
Mr. Gladstone contributes to the NineteenUt
| Century an article upon Lord Tennyson's lately
| published sequel to "Locksley Hall" Speaking OF
| the poetic merit OF the work, MI Gladstone says
| that although the new Locksey Haip is, as told
by the calendar, work Of Tennyson's old age, yet
| Is his poetic eye not dim nor his natural force
abated;' and he goes TO observe that "the very
last criticism that will be hazarded II hazarded
will be accepted, on his work will be that 1t be-
trays want OF tone or FIBER Addressing himself
TO the substance OF the poem Mr.. Gladstone looks
on the opening OF this century as a time OF great
gloom and darkness. What he calls ssthe back
waters of the French revolution, and of the war
against 1t," almost submerged progress In Eng
land! ''The first three decades Of this century
ally and politically from the terrible recoil of the
French revolution and OF the means employed to
counterfeit It," But since 1880 the progress has
been incessant and RAPID. Touching this Mr..
'sThe propho OF the new Iocksley hall records
against US uidny sad and even shameful defaults.
They are not to be denied. and the list probably
might De heightened. The youngest among us
Will not see the day in which new social problems
VIII nave ceased TO spring from the depths, and
vex even the most successful SOiyers Of the old;
In which this proud and great English nation will
nave cause, In all ranks and ORDERS 10 DOW
It's head before the Judge Eternal and humbly TO
confess to forgotten duties wasted and neglected
opportunities. 1t is well to be reminded, and in
tones such as pake the deaf man hear, OF city
children who soak and blacken soul and sense in
city s1me; OF maidens cast by thousands on the
street; OF the sempstress scrtmped OF her daily
oread; OF dwellings mSerably crowded; OF fever as
the result; even OF incest in the warTenS OF the
poor On the last named item and the group OF
Ideas herewith associated, scarcely suited for dis
cussion here, am not sure that the warrenS Of
the poor ha We more to fear from rigid investiga-
tlon than other and more spacious habitations.
But word On the rest. Take first the city child
as he Is described. For one such child now there
were ten, perhaps twenty, fifty years back. A
VERY very large and stu Increasing proportion OF
regular training and discipline OF the school.
''Take the maidens VINO are now, as they were
then. cast by thousands on the street. But then,
II one among them were stricken with penitence
and sought for place in which to hide her head,
she found it only in the pomp Of paid institutions
anu In a help well meant, no doubt yet carrying
little Of what was most esSent1al-Sympathetic
discrimination and mild, nay even tender care.
Within the half century new chapter has opened.
Faith and love have gone forth into the field.
Specimens OF womankind, sometimes the very
best and highest, have not deemed this quest OF
there is and was. But the fair wage of to-day is
FAR higher than it was then, and the unfair wage
is assumably not lower. Miserable and crowded
dwellings, again, and lever as their result, both
then and now. But legislation has In the interval
made its attempts In earnest, and If this
was with awkward and ungainly hand
ting our city areas with worthy dwell
ings. The evils which our prophet
rightly seeks to cauterize with his red-hOt iron
We're rank among US even in the days when
| Hogarth, pioneer Of reformation, drew his Beer
street and his Gin lane. They grew with population
andwith wealth, but they grew unnoticed until near
the period when the earliest LockSley Hall
cheerec the hearts OF those who sought to mend
the world. II fifty years ago censure was appeased
and hopefulness encouraged. is there any reason
now why hope should be put under an eXtinguisher
and censure should hold all the ground?
nf ,nafr Nat hot,
the whole, and In degree, we who lived nifty,
sixty, seventy years back, and living now,
have lived into gentler time. that the public
conscience has grown more tender, as indeed was
very needfuI, and that, in matters OF practice at
sight OF evils formerly regarded with Indifference
or even connivance II now not only winceS, but
reaping, and not scattering; earning, and not
wasting; and that, without It's being said that the
Old prophet is wrong, IL may be said that the
young prophet was Enthusiastically right
The ''Devil EXTRACTOR of India.
From the Times of India.
The last census In India revealed the fact that
there are more occupations engaged in by the
people OF the country than the ordinary public is
| cognzant OF, but, as far as we remember, 1T has
been left to the Madras small cause court to bring
to light gentleman who gains his living by devil
! extracting. This novel and, II we may Judge by
the fee charged, highly lucrative employment. APP
pears TO be recognized as perfectly legitimate
| profession. The cause OF action, 1t Is true,
| was put down in the plant as refusal to
pay the plaintiff for the cure of the defend
ants brother "Of mental disorder or ma
MIA attended by physical distress, insensibity
and pains" but there no disguise In court as
| to the exact nature OF the claim. In fact the
judge, native gentleman, appeared 10 resent the
| skepticism OF the defendants pleader as to the
possibility OF casting cut devils and his POPULARITY
| at the expense OF the plaintiffs profession
"What, IL a doctor does not cure, he cannot re-
covert" his honor exclaimed on one OCCASION and
| on another, when the defendants pieader ex-
pressed his disbelief in devil extracting he in
consequently observed: ''But you believe In
\ haunted hOuSeS?' To this remark the peader
| replied: 'srhere may be spiritual manifesto
tion," from which 1t would appear that he is not
altogether free from the superstition which he
ridiculed. The plaintiffs DISCRIMINATION was
| very d1vert1ng. Diseases, he said, were Of
| three k1nds-mental, spiritual and physical.
Some ply steal sicknesses he could cure By his art
| but not every case. Asked IL he could cure love
pains, he replied: ''That is ! very hard pain to
cure: even my father could not cure that" Later
on he stated that he could not cure person unless
| he were negative. Other witnesses called de-
Scr1Ded the nature OF the plaintiffs treatment and
Its success. 1t was inferred that the evil spirit of
the patient In this case was OF the female kind.
| and as he, poor man, had only just been married.
perhaps the presumption was not far from the
| truth AT the conclusion OF the evidence the
| worthy Judge dismissed the suit, not because he
| was OF the opinion that there was no cause OF
action, but because there was no evidence to sup
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